Sverdlovsk Region: Number of New Credit Cards Up 90.1%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 19, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based banks issued 90.1% more credit cards in the third quarter of 2018 than in in the third quarter of 2017, National Credit History Bureau’s research findings indicate.

In QIII’17, 50,328 credit cards got issued; one year later, the future is 95,693.

In Russia on the whole, the number of newly issued credit cards rose by 61.8% between QIII’17 and QIII’18, that is, from 1.81m up to 2.94m.